The Magna Charta and Other Great Charters of England: With an Historical Treatise and Copious Explanatory NotesCampbell, 1899 - 364 páginas |
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... ancient history of England , the fables are many , but the facts are few . About the only history that we have , which goes back to the very early periods , with the citation of those occurrences purporting to be facts , is the ...
... ancient history of England , the fables are many , but the facts are few . About the only history that we have , which goes back to the very early periods , with the citation of those occurrences purporting to be facts , is the ...
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... ancient chroniclers , all of whom I have carefully examined , do not dwell to any extent , if at all , upon that phase of the history of the country which deals more particularly with the land . The his- tory of a people is , of course ...
... ancient chroniclers , all of whom I have carefully examined , do not dwell to any extent , if at all , upon that phase of the history of the country which deals more particularly with the land . The his- tory of a people is , of course ...
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... ancient city of Glastonbury and confirmed by auto- graph and by the sign of the cross , I do , as was before said , hereby decree that this grant of former kings shall remain firm " and inviolate , as long as the revolution of " the ...
... ancient city of Glastonbury and confirmed by auto- graph and by the sign of the cross , I do , as was before said , hereby decree that this grant of former kings shall remain firm " and inviolate , as long as the revolution of " the ...
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... ancient tenure and the feudal system of William I. Therefore , as they had no one great and powerful leader like William to usurp and claim authority over them as a community , where could have been their gain ? This tenure then , of ...
... ancient tenure and the feudal system of William I. Therefore , as they had no one great and powerful leader like William to usurp and claim authority over them as a community , where could have been their gain ? This tenure then , of ...
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... ancient laws of the kingdom , which the holy and pious kings , his predecessors and chiefly King Edward , had ordained . " Having done this , and the more to appease the malcontents and quiet them , William's next move was to issue ...
... ancient laws of the kingdom , which the holy and pious kings , his predecessors and chiefly King Edward , had ordained . " Having done this , and the more to appease the malcontents and quiet them , William's next move was to issue ...
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Página 228 - Realm, by advice of our venerable Fathers, STEPHEN, Archbishop of Canterbury, primate of all England and cardinal of the Holy Roman Church...
Página 263 - No freeman shall be seized, or imprisoned, or dispossessed, or outlawed, or in any way destroyed, nor will we condemn him, nor will we commit him to prison, excepting by the legal judgment of his peers, or by the laws of the land. XL. To none will we sell, to none will we deny, to none will we delay right or justice.
Página 240 - It shall be lawful, for the time to come, for any one to go out of our kingdom, and return safely and securely, by land or by water...
Página 237 - ... us, all the chattels shall go to the use of the dead, saving to his wife and children their reasonable shares. 27. If any freeman shall die intestate, his chattels shall be distributed by the hands of his nearest relations and friends, by view of the church; saving to every one his debts which the deceased owed to him.
Página 234 - ... we will cause to be summoned the archbishops, bishops, abbots, earls, and greater barons of the realm, singly by our letters. And furthermore we shall cause to be summoned generally by our sheriffs and bailiffs, all others who hold of us in chief...
Página 229 - FitzHugh, and others, our liegemen, have, in the first place, granted to God, and by this our present Charter confirmed, for us and our heirs for ever: — 1.
Página 278 - It shall not be lawful from henceforth to any to give his lands to any religious house, and to take the same land again to hold of the same house. Nor shall it be lawful to any house of religion to take the lands of any, and to lease the same to him of whom he received it: if any from henceforth give his lands to any religious house, and thereupon be convict, the gift shall be utterly void, and the land shall accrue to the lord of the fee.
Página 221 - Jews, more or less, and die before the debt be satisfied, there shall be no interest paid for that debt, so long as the heir is under age.
Página 259 - And the City of London shall have all its ancient liberties and free customs, as well by land as by water : furthermore we will and grant, that all other cities and boroughs, and towns and ports, shall have all their liberties and free customs.